As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Art is pattern informed by sensibility.

No one can give you the strength of character necessary... Only you can find that passion within that burns with an integrity that will not settle for anything less than the Truth.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

If you do good because you expect to be rewarded, it is greed.

The rule of law should be respected so that the basic structure of our democracy is maintained and further strengthened.

I became convinced that knowing lots of people was kind of skill, something that the diligent can overcome.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

Any peace is better than any war